506 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 22

COUNTY OF STRATFORD

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1928, and the Acts amending the same respectively.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Stratford County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, reconstruction of approximately forty chains of the Stratford-Kaponga Highway—which work involves deviation through private properties, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken.

And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate Broadway South, Stratford, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of land required to be taken: 1 acre 0 roods 1.66 perches.
Being portion of Section No. 21, Block IV, Kaupokonui Survey District; coloured red on plan.
Situate in the County of Stratford.
Dated at Stratford, this 24th day of April, 1947.
67 T. A. JONES, County Clerk.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME

JOYCE RAEWYN FIELDING, of Auckland, Spinster, now lately called JOYCE RAEWYN McLEAN, hereby gives notice that she has by deed-poll dated the 28th day of March, 1947, renounced and abandoned the use of her former surname of McLEAN and in lieu thereof adopted the surname of FIELDING.
68 JACKA AND McELROY, Solicitors.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME

FRANCIS LANGFORD FIELDING, of Auckland, Technician, now lately called FRANCIS LANGFORD McLEAN, hereby gives notice that he has by deed-poll dated the 28th day of March, 1947, renounced and abandoned the use of his former surname of McLEAN and in lieu thereof adopted the surname of FIELDING.
69 JACKA AND McELROY, Solicitors.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that ACE FOOTWEAR, LIMITED, has changed its name to MIDDLETON & COLLINS, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place of the former name.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1947.
70 H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that G. W. DOWLING, LIMITED, has changed its name to DOWLING INVESTMENTS, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place of the former name.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1947.
71 H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that DOWSETTS DRAFFIN, LIMITED, has changed its name to BAKER STORES, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place of the former name.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1947.
72 H. B. WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE FOR A BRANCH RACE

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1926

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Cromwell.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1926, the undersigned, June Rutherford, of Bannockburn, Domestic Duties, hereby applies for a license for a branch race, as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.
Mark on pegs: R.
Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 3.30 p.m. on 9th March, 1947.
Dated and number of miner's right: 6th March, 1947; 85444.
Address for service: Care of Osborne Stevens and Stevens, Solicitors, Clyde.
Dated at Clyde, this 11th day of March, 1947.

SCHEDULE

LOCALITY of the race, and of its starting and terminal points; also description of land traversed—e.g., unalienated Crown land, private land, or otherwise: To carry water in the license for a water-race in the name of Edmund Russell from the intake thereof to the terminal thereof, and from thence for a distance of 400 yards in an east-south-easterly direction through the property of Angus Crabbe, being Sections 43 and 44, Block II, Bannockburn, to the property of the applicant, being Section 48, Block II, Bannockburn.
Length and intended course of race: 400 yards.
Points of intake: One.
Estimated time and cost of construction: Seven days.
Mean depth and breadth: 18 in. by 1 ft.
Number of heads to be carried: 1 1/4 heads.
Purpose for which water is to be used: Irrigation and domestic.
Proposed term of license: Twenty-one years.
JUNE RUTHERFORD,
By her Solicitor, OSBORNE STEVENS.

Precise time of filing of the foregoing application: 10th April, 1947, at 3.30 p.m.
Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto: Thursday, the 8th day of May, 1947, at 10.30 a.m. at the Warden's Court, Cromwell.
Objections must be filed in the Registrar's Office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.
73 F. A. FOOTE, Mining Registrar.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

I, WILLIAM GEORGE MOUNTJOY ELLIOTT, M.A. (1936), M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. (1935), M.D., L.M. (1937), M.R.C.P. (Ir.), 1944, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 18th May, 1947, to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Department of Health at Wellington.
Dated at Christchurch, this 18th day of April, 1947.
WILLIAM GEORGE MOUNTJOY ELLIOTT.
303 Esplanade, New Brighton, Christchurch. 74

GILLESPIES BEACH GOLD DREDGING COMPANY, LIMITED

IN LIQUIDATION

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter of GILLESPIES BEACH GOLD DREDGING COMPANY, LIMITED (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 241 of the Companies Act, 1933, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held in Messrs. Thompson and Lang's Board Room, A.M.P. Chambers, Princes Street, Dunedin, at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 14th day of May, 1947, for the purpose of having an account laid before the meeting showing how the winding-up of the company has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanations thereof which may be given by the Liquidator; and to consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as an extraordinary resolution:—

"That the books, papers, and documents of the company remain in the possession of the liquidator, to be destroyed at the expiration of twelve months."
Dated this 18th day of April, 1947.
75 F. R. THOMPSON, Liquidator.

WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Waikato County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

"That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £20,000, authorized to be raised by the Waikato County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting workers' dwellings and purchasing land in connection therewith, and for such other purposes as are permitted by sections 192 and 193 of the Counties Act, 1920, the said Waikato County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of thirteen two-hundred-and-fiftieths of a penny (13/250d.) in the pound upon the rateable value on the basis of the capital value of all rateable property in the County of Waikato; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan and be payable yearly on the 14th day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five years or until the loan is fully paid off."

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed at a meeting of the Waikato County Council held on the 15th day of April, 1947.
76 C. F. E. BARTON, County Clerk.